RESULT
comp.edu.composition will be removed
The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 8 Aug 2006 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
comp.edu.composition.
This group will be removed on 21 Aug 2006.
RATIONALE: remove comp.edu.composition
comp.edu.composition has had no on-topic messages in the past 11 months.
Discussion about the use of computers for writing instruction would be
better
placed in the misc.education.* hierarchy or in misc.writing.
This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups. Please see article <1152814343.19576@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, available here:
http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363
Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.
HISTORY:
comp.edu.composition has existed as an INET group since at least 1987. It
was promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.edu.composition
misc.writing
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-08-14 Results posted.
2006-08-08 3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13 2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06 1st RFD
